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From: Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o>
To: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-council] Question I had while writing my devmanual patch about eclasses
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:01:16
Message-Id: 20090604230102.GB18556@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net
1 While writing the devmanual patch that I agreed to write for removal of
2 eclasses I came across the very vague definition of "deprecating"
3 eclasses before removal. Ulrich(last name ommitted to avoid stabbing ;-) )
4 and we came up with the following for the process of deprecating an
5 eclass:
6
7 a. make sure nothing in the tree uses it any more
8 b. announce deprecation on -dev
9 c. put a warning in pkg_setup
10 d. add a line containing exactly "# @DEAD" for vapier's man pages
11
12 Please vote so we don't have to go over this in a meeting. I personally
13 am fine with it, but my vote matters little.
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17 Thomas Anderson
18 Gentoo Developer
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20 Areas of responsibility:
21 AMD64, Secretary to the Gentoo Council
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